Thermal boundary resistance between GaN and substrate in AlGaN/GaN electronic devices

A Sarua, H Ji, KP Hilton, DJ Wallis… - … on electron devices, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The influence of a thermal boundary resistance (TBR) on temperature distribution in ungated
AlGaN/GaN field-effect devices was investigated using 3-D micro-Raman thermography …

GaN-On-Diamond HEMT Technology With TAVG = 176°C at PDC,max = 56 W/mm Measured by Transient Thermoreflectance Imaging

MJ Tadjer, TJ Anderson, MG Ancona… - IEEE Electron …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Record DC power has been demonstrated in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors
fabricated using a substrate replacement process in which a thick diamond substrate is …

Reduced self-heating in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs using nanocrystalline diamond heat-spreading films

MJ Tadjer, TJ Anderson, KD Hobart… - IEEE electron device …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) thin films are deposited as a heat-spreading capping layer
on AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices. Compared to a control sample, the NCD-capped HEMTs …

Electro-thermal modeling of multifinger AlGaN/GaN HEMT device operation including thermal substrate effects

ER Heller, A Crespo - Microelectronics Reliability, 2008 - Elsevier
AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device operation was modeled from the
sub-micrometer scale to the substrate using a combination of an electro-thermal device …

Electrothermal simulation of the self-heating effects in GaN-based field-effect transistors

VO Turin, AA Balandin - Journal of Applied Physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
We report results of the analytical and numerical investigation of self-heating effects in GaN-
based high-power field-effect transistors. The problem of heat transfer in a transistor …

A quasi-physical compact large-signal model for AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Z Wen, Y Xu, Y Chen, H Tao, C Ren… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an accurate quasi-physical compact large-signal model for GaN high
electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). The drain current I ds expression is acquired by …

High-resolution thermoreflectance imaging investigation of self-heating in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on Si, SiC, and diamond substrates

A El Helou, P Komarov, MJ Tadjer… - … on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium nitride (GaN) high electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) offer considerable high-
power operation but suffer in reliability due to potentially damaging self-heating. In this …

Thermal model for dc characteristics of algan/gan hemts including self-heating effect and non-linear polarization

MK Chattopadhyay, S Tokekar - Microelectronics Journal, 2008 - Elsevier
A thermal model based on the polynomial relationship of ns and EF is presented. The effect
of temperature rise due to self-heating is studied on various parameters viz. polarization …

Nanocrystalline diamond integration with III-nitride HEMTs

TJ Anderson, KD Hobart, MJ Tadjer… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Reduced performance in Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility
transistors (HEMTs) as a result of self-heating has been well-documented. To mitigate this …

Investigation of self-heating effects in submicrometer GaN/AlGaN HEMTs using an electrothermal Monte Carlo method

T Sadi, RW Kelsall, NJ Pilgrim - IEEE Transactions on Electron …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An electrothermal Monte Carlo (MC) method is applied in this paper to investigate electron
transport in submicrometer wurtzite GaN/AlGaN high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) …